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From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Infocom games for Atari ST?
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 93 14:35:08 GMT
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In article <9411@blue.cis.pitt.edu> wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes:
>
>Lars J|dal:  Sorry, no "Lost Treasures" for the Atari ST. "Lost Treasures"
>is available for the IBM and the Mac (also in for CD-ROM ).  You can get
>some games for the ST- I have some of them. I play (still working on 
>this one) Trinity on my STe.  Therxxx They're not being published any more
>for the ST, thoguh though.

If, however, you compile one of the ZIL interpreters for the ST, you
can most probably use the IBM edition of "Lost Treasures."  I got at
least one of them working to the point of being able to load some of
the GAME.DAT files that I have kicking around.  I'd have to do some
hacking with it to actually make it FRIENDLY; the terminal I/O wasn't
being very nice.  (Backspace didn't work quite right - putting rather
a premium on typing correctly.  I should eventually hack in a readline
interface.)

Anyhow, if you've got a good C compiler, look up one of the ZIL
interpreters (look at the FAQ list) and try it out.  When I've got
time and $, I'll probably pick up Lost Treasures.

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